'Day Watch' producers have 'Fate' in hands
MOSCOW -- The producers of Russia's biggest-ever boxoffice success, Day Watch, which took in $35 million here last year, are planning a sequel to one of the nation's most popular Soviet-era films, Irony of Fate.
Beginning the buzz early, cinema booking agents, in Moscow this week for the 70th annual Russian International Film Market, were confronted with brash posters promising a new, as-yet-unnamed blockbuster from the makers of Day Watch.
The film -- to be shot by Watch director Timur Bekmambetov and featuring Watch star Konstantin Khabensky -- will update a film that has become a cult classic since its Dec. 31, 1975 release and which holds a place in Russian affection equal to that in the U.S. for It's a Wonderful Life.
Written and directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Irony of Fate tells the story of a group of friends in Moscow who get blind drunk while partying at a Turkish bath on New Year's Eve.
One of them is supposed to fly home to Leningrad to join his wife to celebrate the New Year, but by mistake they send Muscovite Zhenya instead, who is too drunk to notice.
Beginning the buzz early, cinema booking agents, in Moscow this week for the 70th annual Russian International Film Market, were confronted with brash posters promising a new, as-yet-unnamed blockbuster from the makers of Day Watch.
The film -- to be shot by Watch director Timur Bekmambetov and featuring Watch star Konstantin Khabensky -- will update a film that has become a cult classic since its Dec. 31, 1975 release and which holds a place in Russian affection equal to that in the U.S. for It's a Wonderful Life.
Written and directed by Eldar Ryazanov, Irony of Fate tells the story of a group of friends in Moscow who get blind drunk while partying at a Turkish bath on New Year's Eve.
One of them is supposed to fly home to Leningrad to join his wife to celebrate the New Year, but by mistake they send Muscovite Zhenya instead, who is too drunk to notice.
- 3/16/2007
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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